Show us yours: Flying Scotsman photos

[6990WitherslackHall]

60103 Flying Scotsman is 100 on 24th February next year and celebrations have already started with 60103 having been on display on Saturday and Sunday on platform 8 in King's Cross station.

 

Celebrations include: the loco visiting the Bluebell and Keighley Worth Valley Railways, on static display in the Railway Museum at York, a visit to Locomotion, three "The Waverley" railtours hauled by the loco from York and much more. Hornby are releasing several models of the famous locomotive in the many guises it has worn over the last 100 years and a specially commissioned 6 wheel teak coach commemorating the event. 

 

 

So to celebrate this big event, I decided to start this topic. Photos can be of models or the real thing. 

Edited October 17, 2022 by 6990WitherslackHall

[6990WitherslackHall]

Flying Scotsman outside the Railway Museum in York in the sidings next to the Flying Scotsman Story in North Shed on 21/08/21. 

 

[009 micro modeller]

[DaveF]

Here are a few photos in 1968 and 1973.

 

The first photo is of her working a special at Skipton.

 

The next three are explained below.

 

As some of you know after Bill McAlpine purchased her she was kept for a time, from 1973, at Market Overton at the ex British Steel shed there, accessed from the ECML via the High Dyke branch from the junction at the north end of Stoke Tunnel, then along the branch and onto the ex British Steel lines through Sewstern to Market Overton.

 

Note, all the photos were taken with permission to be trackside.

 

 

Skipton 4472 Flying Scotsman special to Morecambe March 68 J1228

 

 

Sewstern A3 4472 Flying Scotsman Oct 73 C1432 en route to Market Overton

 

 

Market Overton 4472 FlyingScotsman arriving Oct 73 C1436

 

 

Market Overton A3 4472 Flying Scotsman Oct 73 C1440

 

 

David

Edited October 17, 2022 by DaveF

[iands]

From 2016 after she'd returned to the rails after a lengthy absence.

 

Travelling at speed approaching Flaxton crossing on a York - Scarborough test run (23/02/2016)

 

 On the run from Kings Cross on the Down ECML approaching Bridge 25 at 179.5-mile post, being photo-bombed by one of the helicopters filming the journey (25/02/2016)

[6990WitherslackHall]

Do you know if she'll return to Scarborough in the coming years?

[iands]

Just now, 6990WitherslackHall said:

Do you know if she'll return to Scarborough in the coming years?

Sorry, I haven't a clue.

[iands]

One more.

 

From near the rear of the train, rounding the curves near to RAF Fylingdales on the run from Grosmont to Pickering (17/03/2016)

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Passing Branksome tender-first this morning, en-route from Southall to Swanage.

[Steamport Southport]

Another going away shot.

 

Bury ELR 5/9/2021

 

 

 

 

One of the very few photos that I've took on this phone thing that seems to have worked and it was packed so many views ended up with other people in them (and my fingers.....)

 

 

Jason

[jbqfc]

NRM York 4-6-2012 

 

Reading 28-5-2016 

 

 

 

 

[stewartingram]

A few shots taken on a visit to Norwich, 1968?

 

[stewartingram]

and a few more..

 

[stewartingram]

Norwich 1968 again

[stewartingram]

Cambridge 1963, Peterborough North 10-04-1965

 

 

[Bill Jamieson]

Climbing Borthwick Bank en route to Tweedbank, 15th May 2016

[The Border Reiver]

On 2nd April 1966 a few of us Carlisle lads, despite severe blizzard conditions ovenight, decided to go to to Carleton (2.5 miles south of the station) on a local bus to photo 4472 Flying Scotsman on the 'Stephenson Locomotive Society / Manchester Locomotive Society Lakes & Fells Rail Tour'. The train was coming up the Settle line then down the WCML to Penrith, then on to Keswick hauled by 2 Ivatt 2-6-0 locos.

After we got off the bus. we struggled along a footpath through two foot snow drifts to the railway line and waited. Unknown to us the train was delayed waiting for a snowplough to reach Hellifield resulting in departure from Hellifield 54mins late. Meanwhile we were all freezing while standing in snow at the entrance to the cutting at the end of the embankment.

 

Eventually, 79 mins late, we saw a plume of smoke approaching. My friends had decided to go to the cutting a couple of hundred yards south from where I was standing by the embankment. As the train approached I fired off a couple of shots, the latter one resulted in the photo below. However, immediately as I clicked the shutter, a class 40 on a long down freight hurtled past. Needless to say my friends never got any decent photos due to the freight blocking the shot. To say they were annoyed is an understatement and they expressed their annoyance very verbally indeed!

 

I used my new yellow/green filter on my Ilford Sportsman camera that day and it certainly brought the sky out

brilliantly.

 

 

 

[6990WitherslackHall]

Another one of Scotsman outside the Railway Museum at York on 21/08/21

 

[Halvarras]

4472 Flying Scotsman on an LCGB special at Didcot on 27th October 1973 (during the 15 months I possessed a hopeless 35mm camera called a 'Paulette' - I should have guessed!):

 

(I wonder whether the GWS discovered one of their coaches was missing after the train had departed........no, I'm sure it was intentional!!)

[6990WitherslackHall]

Flying Scotsman at the Railway Museum at York today (14/04/23). The loco was separated from its tender so people could access the footplate.

 

 

 

[6990WitherslackHall]

Visited the Keighley Worth Valley Railway on 26/05/23 to ride behind the locomotive for the first time. The loco was top and tailing with Standard 2mt 78022 as it was too big to fit in the headshunt at Oxenhope so it couldn't run round its train. 78022 worked Oxenhope - Keighley and 60103 worked Keighley - Oxenhope.

 

Other locos working that day were Class 20 20031 and Standard 4mt 75078.

 

Photo of 60103 coming into Oxenhope

 

 

78022 on the other end of the train at Oxenhope ready to depart to Keighley.

 

75078 at Oxenhope 

 

20031 at Keighley

[009 micro modeller]

Hatfield (Herts) today - it’s not the best ever attempt at taking a picture as I wasn’t really expecting it but if my train hadn’t been a few minutes late I’d have missed the photo altogether:

 

[PaulRhB]

Here’s my mate popping the Exeter train in front of the assembled photographers as it shunts back into the station 🤣 I was up doing the yard spots when I heard the cry’s of anguish as the Exeter caught up and quickly captured the moment 😉

 

[Peter Beckett]

The Waverley 11th July 2016 from York to Carlisle 

[009 micro modeller]

12 hours ago, 009 micro modeller said:

Hatfield (Herts) today - it’s not the best ever attempt at taking a picture as I wasn’t really expecting it but if my train hadn’t been a few minutes late I’d have missed the photo altogether:

 

And on its way back this evening, just south of Brookmans Park:

 

 

 

I made a bit more effort this time (as opposed to Scotsman just appearing during my commute) although in some ways the photos aren’t as good.

Edited June 23, 2023 by 009 micro modeller